Finally!!!! The phone lines are working again. Due to the nasty storm we got yesterday through today, our phone box got soaking wet and we were without phone for most of today. I was so glad to hear the phone ring about an hour or so ago and when I hung up, I jumped on line.

WOW! What a storm! The winds and the driving rain were amazing. One of the dead pine trees on the side fell nearby so we have to go clean that up before the week is over. And when looking up the path from the road (we can do that when there's no leaves on the trees), another tree had fallen on the path. Mess #2 to deal with. But, that's okay. There was no other damage. The power went out for only a few minutes at a time, too, so all in all, we got off pretty well.

I'm trying to think if there is a tree with any leaves left on it after last night. If my memory serves me right, not really..... If so, they are super-glued on!!!!

Cheers! ~MacKenzie

WARNING: The following may cause some serious brain cell damage.....

Q. What is a Mummie's favorite type of music? A. Wrap!!!!!

Q. What's a monster's favorite bean? A. A human bean.

Q. Why can't the boy ghost have babies? A. Because he has a Hallo-weenie.

Q. What do you call a witch who lives at the beach? A. A sand-witch.

Q. Where does a ghost go on Saturday night? A. Anywhere where he can boo-gie.

Q. What do ghosts say when something is really neat? A.Ghoul

Q. Why did the ghost go into the bar? A. For the Boos.

Q. Why was the girl afraid of the vampire? A. He was all bite and no bark.

Q. Why did the game warden arrest the ghost? A. He didn't have a haunting license.

Q. Why didn't the skeleton dance at the party? A. He had no body to dance with.

Q. Where does Count Dracula usually eat his lunch? A. At the casketeria.

Q. Where did the goblin throw the football? A. Over the ghoul line.

Q. Why did the Vampire read the Wall Street Journal? A. He heard it had great circulation.

Q. What tops off a ghost's ice cream sundae? A. Whipped scream.

Q. What are ghosts' favorite kind of streets? A. Dead ends

Q. What is a vampire’s favorite holiday? Fangsgiving

Q. What kind of makeup do ghosts wear? A. Mas-scare-a.

Q. What happens when two vampires meet? A. It was love at first bite!

Q. What do you call two spiders that just got married? A. Newlywebbed

Q. What did the ghost say to the man at the coffee shop? A. Scream or sugar!

Q. Who was the most famous French skeleton? A. Napoleon bone-apart

Q. What do Italian's eat on Halloween? A. Fettucinni Afraid-o

Q. What do you get when you cross a black cat with a lemon. A. sour-puss

Q. Why do ghosts shiver and moan? A. It's drafty under that sheet.

Q. Why do vampires scare people? A. They are bored to death!

Q. What's it like to be kissed by a vampire? A. It's a pain in the neck.

Q. How does a girl vampire flirt? A. She bats her eyes.

Q. What is a vampires least favorite food? A. Steak

Q. What's it called when a vampire has trouble with his house? A. A grave problem.

Q. Why did the headless horseman go into business? A. He wanted to get ahead in life.

Q. Riddle: the maker does not want, it the buyer does not use it, and the user does not see it, what is it? A. a coffin

Q. What do they teach in witching school? A. Spelling.

Q. What do you call a witch's garage? A. A broom closet.

Q. What do you call two witches living together? A. Broommates.

Q. Why don't mummies take vacations? A. They're afraid they'll relax and unwind.

Q. Where do ghosts go out? A. Where they can get sheet-faced.

Q. What did the corpse' mom do when her son was bad? A. Ground him

Q. Why did the vampire need mouthwash? A. Because he had bat breath.

Q. What do you call a monster who poisons corn flakes? A. A cereal killer.

Q. Who are some of the werewolves cousins? A. The whatwolves, the whowolves and the when wolves.

Q. What did the bird say on Halloween? A. Trick or tweet!

Q. What's a Vampire's least favourate song? A. Another one bites the dust!

Q. What is a Skeleton's favorite song. A. Bad to the Bone

Q Why do ghosts like to ride elevators? A.it raises their spirits.

Q. Why can't a Skeleton Lift Weights? A. He's all bone & no muscle.

Q. What is a ghost's favorite band? A. The Boos Brothers

Q: What did the boy ghost say to the girls ghost? A: You are the must booooooful thing I have ever seen!

Q. Why does a cemetery have to keep a fence around it? A. Because people are dying to get in.

Q. What do you give to a pumpkin who is trying to quit smoking? A. A pumpkin patch!!!

Q. What does the devil keep between his legs? A.Great balls of fire.

Q. What do you get when you goose a ghost? A. A handful of sheet!

Q. What did Dracula say after reading all these jokes? A. They suck!

Q: What did the owl say to the girl ghost as she walked by?A: Nice HOOOOOTERS!

Q: What did the ghost say when the boy told him a joke? A: You KILL me!
I know, I know....I'm pretty mean to have you sit through that in hopes for at least a half way decent one.....but, 'tis the Halloween Season!!!!!   Hey, my Pumpkin got a good laught out of them, anyway......


Cheers! ~MacKenzie

Yikes. And so it begins. This afternoon, I heard the first gunshot of the season. (sigh) Deer hunting season officially begins tomorrow, but apparently teens can start hunting a week early. Now, I don't have anything against someone going out and shooting a deer to help feed their family for the winter. Providing for your family is one thing. (In fact I applaud them for being able to look into those beautiful eyes and pull the trigger anyway.) But it's the whole killing for sport thing that drives me crazy. Give the deers guns and teach them how to use them...then you've got a sport.... Tonight, I was sitting so as I could see out the window where a truck stopped just passed our driveway and suddenly a huge spot light scanned the llama fields from one side to the next before slowly moving on. You know, I just got the feeling that whoever it was, was looking for something other than llamas...... And unfortunately deer are often found there.... I really detest this time of year as far as that goes.

Cheers! ~MacKenzie

Unfortunately, I have a zillion things to do tomorrow so I'm not sure if I can wade in the waters of the Stream tomorrow. But, I did want to state for the record that today after Mom and Papa took another look at the house, they made an offer and.... (oh..what is the term?) ummm... made a "good faith" deposit on the house. So that's that.

I'm just going to put it in my head that yet again, this wasn't the right one..... And there ya have it! conclusion....

Cheers! ~MacKenzie

The Cursing of Colonel Buck retold by S. E. Schlosser
Now Colonel Buck was not what you'd call the most virtuous man in town. No sir! He had an eye for the ladies, did Colonel Buck, and he would chase them 'til he got what he wanted. Then he would drop them like a hot brick. Well, Colonel Buck has a pretty maid working for him. It weren't long before he started noticing her and she, poor lass, started looking back.

One thing led to another, don't you know, and one day Colonel Buck turned out his pretty maid, seeing as she was unmarried and in the family way. Well now, that pretty lass had a deformed baby boy, and she had a hard time making ends meet with a growing son. She began putting pressure on ol' Colonel Buck to take responsibility for the boy.

Well, Colonel Buck weren't having none of that. He began putting it about town that this lassie was really a witch. The rumor spread and spread. The townsfolk became a-feared of the lass and one day they grabbed the woman and brought her before Colonel Buck. He condemned her to death for sorcery, and had her burned at the stake.

The woman shouted a curse at the Colonel as she burned, swearing that he would always bear the mark of this injustice. Her poor young son was forced to watch his mother being burned as a witch. When one of his mother's legs fell from her burning body, he broke away from the crowd, ran forward to pick up the leg and fled. It was the only piece of his mother he had left to bury.

After Colonel Buck's death, a grand tombstone was erected in his honor. A few weeks later, a strange discoloration began to form on the stone. It was the picture of a woman's leg. The reminder of the woman and her curse embarrassed the people of Bucksport. They had the stone thrown out to sea. But the stone was washed ashore, the image of the leg still branded upon it. The town leaders had the stone smashed to bits and they put a new tombstone on Colonel Buck's grave. But the image of the leg reappeared on the new stone, and could not be removed. It remains there to this day; a reminder of a poor girl who was robbed of her innocence and later her life by Colonel Buck.
The Headless Horseman retold by S. E. Schlosser
One cold winter night, early in the New Year, a certain Dutchman left the tavern in Tarrytown and started walking to his home in the hollow nearby. His path led next to the old Sleepy Hollow cemetery where a headless Hessian soldier was buried.

At midnight, the Dutchman came within site of the graveyard. The weather had warmed up during the week, and the snow was almost gone from the road. It was a dark night with no moon, and the only light came from his lantern. The Dutchman was nervous about passing the graveyard, remembering the rumors of a galloping ghost that he had heard at the tavern. He stumbled along, humming to himself to keep up his courage.

Suddenly, his eye was caught by a light rising from the ground in the cemetery. He stopped, his heart pounding in fear. Before his startled eyes, a white mist burst forth from an unmarked grave and formed into a large horse carrying a headless rider. The Dutchman let out a terrible scream as the horse leapt toward him at a full gallop. He took to his heels, running as fast as he could, making for the bridge since he knew that ghosts and evil spirits did not care to cross running water. He stumbled suddenly and fell, rolling off the road into a melting patch of snow. The headless rider thundered past him, and the man got a second look at the headless ghost. It was wearing a Hessian commander's uniform.

The Dutchman waited a good hour after the ghost disappeared before crawling out of the bushes and making his way home. After fortifying himself with schnapps, the Dutchman told his wife about the ghost. By noon of the next day, the story was all over Tarrytown. The good Dutch folk were divided in their opinions. Some thought that the ghost must be roaming the roads at night in search of its head. Others claimed that the Hessian soldier rose from the grave to lead the Hessian soldiers in a charge up nearby Chatterton Hill, not knowing that the hill had already been taken by the British. Whatever the reason, the Headless Horseman continues to roam the roads near Tarrytown on dark nights from that day to this.